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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

Designs for the Deputy Register's House, 1789, unexecuted (6)

Adam’s design for the Deputy Register’s House comprised a three-bay detached building, containing generous living accommodation for the Deputy Register behind the two western bays of the block, and an Apartment for the Lord Register in the eastern bay.

Designed in 1789, the building was intended for a plot to the north east of the Register House on Princes Street, but it was not executed.

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SM Adam volume 1/97

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[20] Preliminary design for the house, 1789

datable to 1789

SM Adam volume 1/97

SM Adam volume 46/59

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[21] Deign of the cellar storey of the house, 1789

datable to 1789

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

SM Adam volume 46/59

SM Adam volume 46/58

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[22] Design of the principal (ground) and bedchamber (first) storeys of the house, 1789

datable to 1789

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 46/58

SM Adam volume 46/60

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[23] Design for the attic (second) storey of the house, 1789

datable to 1789

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 46/60

SM Adam volume 46/56

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[24] Design for the principal and garden fronts of the house, 1789

datable to 1789

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 46/56

SM Adam volume 46/57

Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)

[25] Design for the side (east) elevation of the house, 1789

Edinr 26 Nov 1789

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 46/57

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